The 2 cars are about the same size; but oh how the times have changed. The blue one is a typical family car (just a tad smaller than the average family sedan: fusion/Chrysler200/Camry/Accord etc. The older green one was, in it's day, considered a joke in America. Too tiny to be a "real car". It was in the class of cars called "clown cars" "schreiner cars" and just plain weird. "One of those quaint little european micro cars". But in those days, most familys could not only afford to buy an 18' long, 6 passenger vehicle--they could afford to trade every 2-5 years and burn through gas at 8 mpg without blinking an eye! Who would have thought then that "4-passenger clown cars" would ever become the norm!